Save Our State plans another protest at Baldwin Park. Heartened by local outrage which prompted city officials to spend thousands of dollars to buy police protection for them, Save Our State's goal appears to be to hold Baldwin Park ransom by continuing meaningless protests and bleed the cities coffers dry.
"A protest by the group last month, the subject of talk radio chatter, dissolved into shouting when a much larger group of counter-protesters showed up, prompting police to call in reinforcements and costing the city more than $30,000, officials say.
It's a cost the city, with a population of roughly 80,000 and an annual budget of $40 million, can ill afford."
Here's the full article in the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baldwin25jun25,1,7349286.story?coll=la-headlines-california&
amp;ctrack=1&cset=true
While illegal immigration is a losing issue for Democrats, the issue must be reframed and fought for a simple reason. In the 90s when things went wrong Republicans blamed Clinton, now that Republicans control all the levers of government, they are desperately grasping for a scapegoat to blame this country's problems on (which, incidentally, we all know they caused).
When Democrats cry that education is bad, health care is expensive, unemployment is up, etc... Republicans counter that it is because of illegal immigrants. Illegal children are clogging the school system, illegal immigrants are making health care more expensive by flooding emergency rooms, illegal immigrants are taking jobs from real Americans.
These arguments are very seductive to a significant portion of the American populace (as evidenced by waves of anti-immigration which sweep the country from time to time) they must be refuted and Democrats must pin the blame exactly where it belongs... with the Republicans.
Save Our State is an evil group because it gets so much media attention, despite the fact that it is tiny. They stir up bigotry, prejudice and racism and drape it around an American flag. They proclaim it patriotic to hate and despise different cultures, it isn't about anti-illegal immigration it's about xenophobia. Don't believe me? Take a look at their site:
http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?s=11b70964ee20bb67e79dfcd2e776ad34&showtopic=2255
"Americans are tired of the unchecked third world invasion of illegal aliens. They are tired of porous borders open to terrorist exploitation. They are tired of watching millions of illegal aliens and their anchor babies flood our schools and devastate the quality of learning afforded to our very own children. They are tired of illegal aliens abusing emergency rooms for medical treatment which has resulted in numerous closings and subsequent loss of services to the taxpaying public. They are tired of watching their great American culture disappear, only to watch it be replaced by other cultures that are inferior and contradictory to everything this country was built upon.
AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF FEELING LIKE A FOREIGNER IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY."
Baldwin Park stands on the front line of this fight, Save Our State will not back down until they drain every dollar from the city and cause problems in everything from street maintenance, to regular police patrols, to education. They will stop at nothing in order to make everyone like them, it is Agent Smith realized, and unlike Neo I don't think self-sacrifice will kill this virus.